In 2008, the couple founded a private museum then known as the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. It has since been renamed the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
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Heck I’m all for renaming Old Town for her.
I’m surprised there wasn’t a Buzby video game.
The composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has passed away. Fuck cancer.
Oh no!
He was a weirdo of the highest caliber and will be greatly missed
Two YMO members in nearly as many months. 
If I’m not mistaken, “Emahoy” is a title, not a name but I guess in that context it works either way, e.g. “Sister”
P.S. I wondered if the way she trilled(?) the notes was meant to emulate the sound of a krar (lyre).
Can’t speak to that, but I used to work with Ethiopians and trilling was a part of the singing.
Oh that’s sad, i love her music. It was used to great effect in the adaptation of Nella Larsen’s Passing.
Damn.
Nigel Lawson, Nigella Lawson’s father and Thatcherite bastard.
Ding dong, the witch’s monkey is dead?
I’m sure there will be a few family members and friends who will miss him but I’m among the millions who definitely won’t.
Ululation?
Ah! That would bring to mind this:
…as heard during church, at weddings, parties, upon hearing good news etc.
(Of course, not just in Ethiopia; this is from Mali:)
Anyway… that piano technique was making me think (sort of) how this starts:
